22-09-2017

At 7 am, we went to the Ubud Rice Fields to do some trekking and to collect the garbage you unfortunately find in masses over there. Though, it was amazing to see the lush green rice fields Ubud is famous for.
I also went to two different waterfalls with three other volunteers today which was just incredible. First was the Kanto Lampo waterfall you can see on the last photo on the below and then the Lipumana waterfall. Both of them were pure beauty of nature! And I also enjoyed that it wasn't even crowded by tourists - I am happy to be back in the mainlands and not to be surrounded by tourists all the time.

For those that are interested in the volcano stuff:
We reached the final alert level, so it's level 4 out of 4 now. The volcano is predicted to erupt any second now and seismic activity increases. More people get evacuated now and you must not approach the volcano within a radius of 12km now. About 34,000 people living in evacuated areas have fled. The airport anticipated its closure in case of eruption. The sky is already grey from the smoke coming out of the volcano and the magma has almost reached the surface. Tourists keep escaping from the island. Some little earthquakes are already sensible. The last time the volcano erupted was in 1963.
Despite of all this, we keep calm and stay in Ubud. We will be safe. The lava won't reach us.




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